A Scandalous History of the Roman Emperors
Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf Ed edition
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
Published: August 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780786707591
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; World history; History: World; Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D; History; History - General History; Ancient Rome; Rome; Ancient - Rome; Emperors; Biography; Social life and customs
First sentence: The omnipotent paterfamilias, enforcing chastity on his sons with the threat of death if they did not obey; the formidably pure matron, like the mother of the Gracchi; the censorious Cato the Elder, who held that a husband had the right to kill a man found in his wife's bed; all were part of Roman legend at the beginning of our age, the time of Augustus, but their image had faded.